Food

Congress’s budget proposals may have been submitted, but it will still be months until we know the final budget numbers. As much as we hate it, the global health and poverty-fighting programs we fight for every day always come under fire during this time and bad things happen when we don’t take action…. 1. ......

I met Elizabeth Nsimadala at the launch of ONE’s Do Agric Campaign in Addis Ababa. Her passion for agriculture shone through her bold statement: “I am a proud, successful farmer. I do agriculture not only because it pays, but because I can do it better.”

It’s been five years since the launch of the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. In 2010, the world stood at a precipice – food prices had hit a 30 year high in 2008 and were rising again. The poorest and most vulnerable were being driven deeper into poverty and hunger, and governments throughout the…...

Gram for gram, moringa has two times the protein of plain yogurt, four times the calcium of milk, 25 times the iron of spinach, four times the vitamin A of carrots, and seven times the vitamin C of oranges. Simply speaking, it’s the superfood of superfoods.

Women make up half of Africa’s agricultural workforce, but produce less per unit of land than men. Not because they’re less able, less resourceful or less motivated, but because they don’t have equal access to resources like land, training and tools.

Last December, it became clear from numerous on the ground assessments that the Ebola outbreak was more than a health crisis. Two months into 2015, we still face the possibility that more than 1 million people could go hungry unless more resources are mobilized for Ebola recovery. With Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf......

Photos and styling by Jordan Elton and Nicole Ouellette In honor of Valentine’s Day, ONE staffers taste-tested some of the best fair and direct trade chocolate on the market to find our absolute favorite. To find the winners, we created a bracket, got some serious foodies in the ONE office to judge in the taste-off,......

By Bill and Melinda Gates Fifteen years ago, the two of us made a bet. We started our foundation in 2000 with the idea that by backing innovative work in health and education, we could help billions of people improve their lives. The progress we’ve seen so far is so exciting that we are doubling…...

This year, we can do something remarkable: make what was once miraculous commonplace. In a piece for TIME, I’ve written that I believe we live in the age of miracles. You can read the piece here. These miracles aren’t about weird stuff that can’t be explained: they’re about saving lives, connecting people around the w......

This is my friend Maria. She is one of the 18,000 people that live in Ruli, Rwanda, and she is tall, beautiful, and kind, but she is certainly not afraid to put someone in their place. I met Maria last May when we she was applying to be in Kula Project’s coffee program, and despite the language barrier, we felt to be kindre...

When her husband died in in 2009, Gladys Chepkorir had no time to linger on the grief. “Immediately after he died, his family started to ask me for the title deed,” she said. Her mother-in-law told her that in spite of the three daughters Gladys and her husband had together, Gladys’ husband had died “like a tree witho

On the eve of Christmas, looking over the hills, down into the city, a fog is rising over the town of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. That fog, rising up from the dust of the roads and smoke off the charcoal fires, tells you January 7th is quickly approaching. It means that Christmas is just over the horizon. Following the…...

Hello ONErs – Hooray! We made it! – It’s ONE-ONE day! The reason we set up ONE a decade ago was to help make sure some wishes – like those we humans make at this time of year – aren’t just forgotten in a vague haze of aspiration, but get done and delivered: that promises…...

The Ebola outbreak is wreaking havoc on the economies of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. 1 million more people could be food insecure in West Africa from Ebola by March, according to the World Food Program (WFP). Though we see and hear almost daily that the Ebola outbreak is a global public health crisis, what we don’t of...